Word: 218th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasionally attempted but rarely successful parliamentary device (it has not worked in the House since 1960), by which the signatures of a majority of House members automatically remove a bill from committee jurisdiction and put it before the whole House. Last week home-rule advocates got the necessary 218th signature from Illinois Democrat George Shipley, who came back to Washington just to sign the petition. No action on the bill can take place until Sept. 27. Meanwhile, opponents of the measure threaten some artful dodges of their own. But the District of Columbia is closer to running its own affairs...